That was surprising. 23 hospital deaths, but only 25 deaths in all settings. Once it was announced that there was 23 hospital deaths, I was expecting the total deaths to certainly be over 60 something today. For instance on one day recently it was something like 77 hospital deaths, but the total deaths in all settings was something like 186, so the total deaths was quite a bit higher than the hospital deaths. So really surprised today that the total deaths in all settings is just 2 more than the hospital deaths.
I agree 25 deaths is pretty near to zero. And is a far far cry from the horrendous days back in April when daily deaths were in the 800's and 900's. We've come a long way since then. But once we've got the daily Coronavirus deaths to be consistently sub 50 - which hopefully shouldn't be too far away now, then it is definitely time to scrap social distancing so that we can start getting the economy back to normal again(though a number of bars, cafes, restaurants, etc have already had to close down permanently because of this). It will be beyond ludicrous and insane if say in 4 months time we've got consistently very low Coronavirus daily deaths, and we've still got this social distancing nonsense still going on, "social distancing" and "socially distanced" still mentioned umpteen times on the news, and all these ads on the TV and radio saying things like "We know things are difficult for everyone right now.", "We are living in extraordinary times." and "We're all in this together." We can't continue with social distancing for too much longer! We may not completely irradicate Coronavirus from the UK, but let's get the total daily deaths down to really low levels, so we can finally scrap social distancing.